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Installation view Friedrich Petzel Gallery

Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2011

Installation view Friedrich Petzel Gallery

Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2011

Installation view Friedrich Petzel Gallery

Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2011

Installation view Friedrich Petzel Gallery

Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2011

Dana Hoey 2010

Dana Hoey
2010
Archival inkjet
27 1/8 x 19 7/16 inches

Barbara Kasten Studio Construct #8

Barbara Kasten
Studio Construct #8
2007
Archival pigment print

Andrew Masullo 5026

Andrew Masullo
5026
2008
Oil on canvas

Dan Torop Plants

Dan Torop
Plants
2010
C-print

Miranda Lichtenstein Kaarin

Miranda Lichtenstein
Kaarin
2010
Archival pigment print

Rebecca Morris Untitled (#03-10)

Rebecca Morris
Untitled (#03-10)
2010
oil and spray paint on canvas

Mariah Robertson 34

Mariah Robertson
34
2011
Nonmetallic color print

Alex Kwartler A Beautiful Dream

Alex Kwartler
A Beautiful Dream
2011
Oil on paper

Allison Katz Topkapi

Allison Katz
Topkapi
2011
Oil on canvas

Press Release

Friedrich Petzel Gallery is delighted to announce Channel to the New Image, a group exhibition curated by Jason Murison including artists Dana Hoey, Miranda Lichtenstein, Barbara Kasten, Allison Katz, Alex Kwartler, Andrew Masullo, Rebecca Morris, Mariah Robertson, Dan Torop, and Roger White.

Channel to the New Image groups five painters and five photographers who are creating new pictures in regards to the reception of the image and the control of meaning. In most cases, the subject of the artwork is obscured through a clashing of representation, figuration, and abstraction (without a hierarchy) and/or deploying methods of production to subtly sabotage the readability of the picture as a whole. Thus, each picture’s context becomes dissolved, re-organized, re-formatted or displaced, forcing both poetic and philosophical approaches to the onset of reading the artwork.

As a curatorial effort, Channel to the New Image recalls the ease of the 1970s New Image Painting’s ambiguous formalism, but rather applying that as a strategy, these artworks float between formulaic aesthetic motifs and the complication of contemporary culture’s heavy saturation of easily read everyday images (from the internet to iPhone pix to advertising). These artworks absorb the confusion and layering of images and ask us to ascertain them through feeling rather than consumption. The exhibition calls upon a need to reexamine the viewer’s relationship with what is represented and the very nature of how we read it. For further information, please contact the gallery at info@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.